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This was the only thing people brought up from then until he left.
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Square-Enix's new CEO Takashi Kiryu appears to be a genuine Final Fantasy fan & gamer
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This was the only thing people brought up from then until he left.
Sales have exploded since the demo release. Its top 8 on PS store and amazon its near the top of lists now. It should be just fine by release. Demo has helped a lot of people iffy on it.
Nobody is doing this for him lol. He just seems interesting thats it. If he starts signing FF games or something then maybe its at that level.
anecdotally speaking here but in my circles the demo does indeed seem to be turning things around for the game.
Suddenly I have hope the Final Fantasy 9 remake won't just move everything to a twitch action combat system like FF7R did.
Hopefully he cares about it all enough to get these games and SE's larger catalogue on PC the right way.
Think I heard once that Yoichi Wada was actually a fan of NieR (Gestalt/Replicant).
Not to say you're wrong, but the demo's success and momentum has absolutely helped move pre-orders. it went from like #20 to #1 on amazon in many regions including japan.
Matsuda was indeed but Kiryu used to work for a company that pushes blockchain junk so essentially "Meet the new boss same as the old boss"
this is very good, i'm rooting for Square with FF, the deserve better.
A New Year's Letter from the President | SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS
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This was the only thing people brought up from then until he left.
Ah okay thought he did something else that I missed.
yeah, Matsuda was pretty loved (especially after Wada) the NFT shit poisoned his rep overnight
Kinda been happening since Steve Jobs' cult following. Now you have Stans for people like Musk, Bezos, etc
Especially since the new CEO seems likely to greenlight a spinoff series with the Final Fantasy label and a different battle system if that opportunity arose for the nostalgia of it.
I know the The 4 Heroes of Light turned into Bravely Default, would love to see what is practically "Bravely Default 3" move back under the FF banner.
Can't believe we've got a second Kiryu Chan
Oh I was wondering where your borderline racist identity gatekeeping posts had gone in the other thread but you'd got banned here
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Especially since Square is still making several great turn based RPG's. I'm kind of annoyed at passing over things like Octopath 2 or bravely default 2 because they don't have final fantasy in the title. And don't tell me they play different from other turn based FF because every FF has a new spin or twist or mechanic. Octopath 2 is legit one of the best turn based games I have ever played and they have been one of my favorite genre's sick I first picked up FF back when I was a kid at Toys R Us.
Shoot, chained echoes came out last year as an indie game and is incredible. The genre is still alive!
Also - if that is what this person thinks, they should turn off easy mode and engage with the battle system because it is a BLAST.
The CEO of one of the biggest video game companies in the world............ actually likes the medium??? Not only that, he has personal experience with one of the most iconic game series of all time????? Ummmmm... le epic win much?!?!????
God the tone of that article is nauseating. The guy has charisma and enthusiasm, great. But are we really so fucking jaded that someone expressing appreciation for the company they're running (with a paycheck of several million dollars a year) is something worth swooning over? I know the state of late capitalism has our expectations in the gutter but that should be the bare minimum for any corporation. Especially in this industry. Games are not niche entertainment. There's nothing extraordinary about being a Gen X gamer.
I'm not shitting on this guy or calling him a phony or anything, but can we keep it in our pants until we see how he actually leads?
God the tone of that article is nauseating. The guy has charisma and enthusiasm, great. But are we really so fucking jaded that someone expressing appreciation for the company they're running (with a paycheck of several million dollars a year) is something worth swooning over? I know the state of late capitalism has our expectations in the gutter but that should be the bare minimum for any corporation. Especially in this industry. Games are not niche entertainment. There's nothing extraordinary about being a Gen X gamer.
I'm not shitting on this guy or calling him a phony or anything, but can we keep it in our pants until we see how he actually leads?
You're suspicion is way more likely to be the case than what some here believe it to be. PR teams know how to lasso a fanbase, especially after having the experience with the prior CEO.
1 week, perfect. poster will be back just in time to troll the OT lol
Yeah, in the end, he is a CEO, and he will act like one. But he at least seems to care about the products they are making.
Compared to someone like Jim Ryan, who acts like a hedge fund manager and seems to have no interest in games at all, I take this new guy every time.
Compared to someone like Jim Ryan, who acts like a hedge fund manager and seems to have no interest in games at all, I take this new guy every time.
Lmao Took more than 80 posts for the first Kazuma Kiryu joke, not sure if i'm proud or ashamed of Era.
FF would back to turn based if Ichiban was the CEO instead lol
Anecdotes about this particular moment in FF1 is common enough that I immediately felt like the whole thing could have been a speech puffed up by anecdotes taken from different places. It could have been genuine but a portion of the speech was probably concocted to make it a more endearing story.
I checked Steam and Sleeping Dogs, unlike games unlike games like Tomb Raider, is still published by Square.
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The most impressive part was that he gave the whole speech in English instead using an interpreter. Koji-Fox remarked afterwards that he didnkt think he'd ever heard him speak English before, so it was clearly an effort he made for the audience.
